Re: FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 18:22 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > I have an external USB drive permanently attached. If for some reason
> > > it's turned off, the boot process will log some errors and continue.
> > > This is my fstab line:
> > >
> > > LABEL=/xtra     /xtra     ext3    defaults  1 2
> > >
> > > Note that it's ext3. ntfs-3g via FUSE may complicate things, I don't
> > > know.
> > It could also be that my experience is out of date. I have not tried 
> > this since I was bitten by it on a system I was troubleshooting. Or 
> > it could be that using the LABEL=<label> form is more tolerant then 
> > the <device> form. I guess I need to do some experimenting when I 
> > have time.
>
> The LABEL=<label> form is to guarantee that the correct device will be
> mounted. /dev/<whatever> is unreliable for USB because devices can come
> online in random order.
>
> poc
Is there a difference in how mount handles things if the drive is 
missing if you use the LABEL= form? I know in the past, the system 
would not boot normally if you used the device form and the drive 
was not there.

Mikkel
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